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Characterization of stable Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing wild-type, secreted, and glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoprotein.

Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0450.

ABSTRACT

We generated Chinese hamster ovary cell lines that stably express wild-type, secreted, and glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored envelope glycoprotein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The cells expressing wild-type Env (WT cells) express both the precursor gp160 and the mature gp120/gp41 and readily form large syncytia when cocultivated with CD4+ human cells. The cells expressing secreted Env (SEC cells) release 140-kDa precursor and mature 120-kDa envelope glycoproteins into the supernatants. The cells expressing GPI-anchored Env (PI cells) express both 140-kDa precursor and mature gp120/gp41 envelope glycoproteins, which can be released from the cell surface by treatment with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC). Both the secreted and PI-PLC-released envelope glycoproteins form oligomers that can be detected on nonreducing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. In contrast to the WT cells, the SEC and PI cells do not form syncytia when cocultivated with CD4+ human cells. The availability of cells producing water-soluble oligomers of HIV-1 Env should facilitate studies of envelope glycoprotein structure and function. The WT cells, which readily induce syncytia with CD4+ cells, provide a convenient system for assessing potential fusion inhibitors and for studying the fusion mechanism of the HIV Env glycoprotein.

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